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"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive": First Edition of The Opening of the Western-Eye; Signed by His Holiness The Dalai Lama
HIS HOLINESS TENZIN GYATSHO: THE XIVTH DALAI LAMA OF TIBET,.
The Opening of the Wisdom-Eye.
Bangkok: The Social Science Association Press of Thailand, 1968.
First edition in English of the Dalai Lama’s first book on Buddhist philosophy. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the Dalai Lama on the title page in Tibetan “with prayers.” A near fine copy in a excellent dust jacket that is lightly rubbed. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare, especially signed.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 4545
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“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric”: First Edition of Bertrand Russell's Philosophy; Signed by Him
RUSSELL, Bertrand.
Philosophy.
W.W. Norton & Company: London, 1927.
First edition of this classic work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Bertrand Russell on the front free endpaper. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 118454
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“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise”: FINELY BOUND LIMITED SUBSCRIBERS EDITION SET OF THE NOVELS OF VICTOR HUGO; ONE OF ONLY 1000 COPIES PRIVATELY PRINTED
HUGO, Victor.
The Novels of Victor Hugo.
Philadelphia : W.H. Campion & Co, 1892.
Finely bound national edition set of the novels of Victor Hugo. Quarto, 14 volumes bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. One of 1000 copies privately printer for a limited subscriber list. This is set number 205 which has been subscribed for by Mr. William P. Bonbright, Colorado Springs, Co. with his bookplate to the front panel of each volume. Each volume is profusely illustrated with engravings with tissue guards and a table of contents at rear. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 88108
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“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes": Finely bound set of the complete works of Alexandre Dumas and Guy de Maupassant
DUMAS, Alexandre; Guy de Maupassant.
The Complete Works of Alexandre Dumas and Guy de Maupassant.
Paris: Editions Louis Conrad, 1929-1955.
Finely bound set of the complete works of Alexandre Dumas and Guy de Maupassant. Octavos, 63 volumes, text in French, bound in three quarters morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, illustrated with engravings. In near fine condition. A very sharp set.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 104568
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Rare First Edition of the Collected Works of Isaac Newton's Opuscula Mathematica
NEWTON, Isaac.
Opuscula Mathematica, Philosophica et Philologica.
Lausanne and Geneva: Aoud Marcum-Michaelem Bousquet & Socios, 1744.
First edition of the first collected edition of Newton‘s writings, which has been hailed as “a fine piece of bookmaking” (Babson). Quarto, bound in contemporary velum, contains 64 folding engraved plates; 2 folding letterpress tables. In very good condition. Small stamps to the spine and title pages. Rare in contemporary binding.
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 109523
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"Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless": First Edition of Max Born's The Restless Universe; Signed by Him
BORN, Max.
The Restless Universe.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1936.
First edition of this classic introduction to physics. Quarto, original cloth. Signed by Max Born on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some rubbing and wear to the extremities. Translated by Winifred M. Deans. Illustrations by Dr. Otto Koenigsberger. This is the first signed example of a first printing we have seen.
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 81190
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Rare First Edition of the Collected Works of Isaac Newton's Opuscula Mathematica
NEWTON, Isaac.
Opuscula Mathematica, Philosophica et Philologica.
Lausanne and Geneva: Aoud Marcum-Michaelem Bousquet & Socios, 1744.
First edition of the first collected edition of Newton‘s writings, which has been hailed as “a fine piece of bookmaking” (Babson). Quarto, bound in contemporary velum, contains 64 folding engraved plates; 2 folding letterpress tables. In very good condition, wide margins. Rare in contemporary binding.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 92332
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"Less is a Bore": First Edition of Learning From Las Vegas; Signed by Both Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown with a large drawing in the rare original dust jacket
VENTURI, Robert; Denise Scott Brown; Steven Izenour.
Learning From Las Vegas.
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1972.
First edition of this groundbreaking work. Folio, original blue cloth with illustrated frontispiece, illustrated throughout. Signed by both Robert Venturi (who has added a large drawing of Venturi’s Mother’s House) and Denise Scott Brown. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 100374
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“Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has": First edition of Memoirs of Hadrian; Signed by Marguerite Yourcenar
YOURCENAR, Marguerite.
Memoirs of Hadrian.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1955.
First edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Marguerite Yourcenar on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Translated from the French by Grace Frick. Rare and desirable signed, the first we have handled and none appearing auction in the last 65 years.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 111934
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“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes": First Edition, First Issue of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles
CONAN DOYLE, Sir Arthur.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes.
London: George Newnes, 1902.
First edition, first issue of the third Sherlock Holmes novel, and widely considered as the best of the series. Octavo, original black and gilt stamped pictorial red cloth. Illustrated by Sidney Paget. In excellent condition with some light rubbing to the spine. A very nice example.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 93500
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"The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people": Rare original Henry Miller watercolor painting; signed by him
MILLER, Henry.
Henry Miller Original Watercolor Painting.
1963.
Rare original watercolor painting by American writer and artist Henry Miller. The painting depicts three anthropomorphic figures, one with a horse-shaped head beneath a sky dotted with one star. Signed by the artist in the lower right corner of the image, “Henry Miller 8/63.” In fine condition. Matted and framed, the entire piece measures 21 inches by 18.5 inches.
Price: $4,200.00 Item Number: 84955
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"Meantime, it happens to my mortification that painters are just now making a desolation of my house": Rare autograph letter written and signed by Ralph Waldo Emerson
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Autographed Letter Signed.
Autographed letter handwritten and signed by Ralph Waldo Emerson. One page, folded and written on both the front and back of the page. The letter reads, “Concord Tuesday Morning 28 June My Dear Sir, I am very happy to hear that my greeting from Miss de Quincey is on its way to me: and I am glad to know that yourself, of whom I had already heard will be the bearer. Meantime, it happens to my mortification that painters are just now making a desolation of my house. Tomorrow my plight will be no better. I think I will come & see you tomorrow afternoon, & we will consent on the best time for me to show you our Concord meadows. I will look for you at the Revere House tomorrow mid-day at 5 1/2 o’ clock in which good hope I am yours respectfully, R.W. Emerson N. Pinder, Esq.” In very good condition. Double matted and framed with a portrait of Emerson. The entire piece measures 14 inches by 20 inches, with an opening in the back of the frame to view the verso of the letter.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 89017
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"With Much Love": First Edition of James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk; Warmly Inscribed by Him
BALDWIN, James.
If Beale Street Could Talk.
New York: The Dial Press, 1974.
First edition of Baldwin’s fifth novel, a love story set in Harlem in the early 1970s. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Heidi:- with much love. Jimmy.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lynn Braswell. Housed in a custom slipcase.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 116354
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“The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question": First Edition of James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
JOYCE, James.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
New York: Huebsch, 1916.
First edition of Joyce’s classic stream-of-consciousness work, his first novel. Octavo, original blue cloth with titles to the spine in gilt. In excellent condition without the usual fade to the spine with some rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 101988
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“There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words": First Edition, First Issue of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles
CONAN DOYLE, Sir Arthur.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes.
London: George Newnes, 1902.
First edition, first issue of the third Sherlock Holmes novel, and widely considered as the best of the series. Octavo, original black and gilt stamped pictorial red cloth. Illustrated by Sidney Paget. In excellent condition with some rubbing and wear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 101644
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“What is most personal is most universal": First Edition of Carl Rogers' On Becoming a Person; Signed by Him
ROGERS, Carl R.
On Becoming a Person: A Therapist’s View of Psychotherapy.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961.
First edition of this classic work by the most influential psychotherapist in history. Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by the author on the title page, “Carl Rogers 7/31/68.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. This is the first example we have seen signed.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 118203
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Rare Publisher's Presentation of The Burden and the Glory; Signed by Jacqueline Kennedy
KENNEDY, John F.; Jacqueline Kennedy.
The Burden and the Glory: The Hopes and Purposes of President Kennedy’s Second and Third Years in Office as Revealed in His Public Statements and Addresses.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1964.
First edition. Octavo, publisher’s special presentation issue binding of full blue crushed morocco, front cover double-ruled in gilt, with gilt central presidential seal, spine ruled in blind and stamped and lettered in gilt in compartments, all edges gilt, marbled endleaves. Signed by Jacqueline Kennedy on the half-title page. In near fine condition with some rubbing to the joints, slipcase with some wear. Rare and desirable signed by Jacqueline Kennedy.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 37002
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"The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again": First Edition of Cry The Beloved Country; Inscribed by Alan Paton
PATON, Alan.
Cry, the Beloved Country.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1948.
First edition of Paton’s classic novel. Octavo, original beige cloth with titles to the spine in brown. Signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, “Alan Paton November 2, 1948.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small closed tear. Laid into this copy is an original bookmark for the screening of the film, held in Pretoria, South Africa. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A superior example of an important work, rarely encountered signed.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 44024
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“On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travellers into the gulf below”: First Edition of The Bridge of San Luis Rey; Inscribed by Thornton Wilder
WILDER, Thornton.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey.
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927.
First edition of the author’s masterpiece and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Milton J. Lesser with the regard of Thornton Wilder New Haven March 1930.” Also laid in is a signed handwritten letter to the recipient from Wilder. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Illustrated by Amy Drevenstedt. A superior example of the dust jacket, which is prone to wear.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 5564
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"With my compliments for a very interesting and enjoyable occasion": AYN RAND'S ATLAS SHRUGGED; INSCRIBED BY HER
RAND, Ayn.
Atlas Shrugged.
New York: Random House, 1957.
Early printing of one of the most influential novels of the twentieth century. Large octavo, original green cloth, frontispiece stamped in gilt, spine stamped in black and gilt. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Betty Hobman – Cordially – Ayn Rand 2/20/70.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Jacket design by George Salter. A very sharp example, desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 115694
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"In nature nothing exists alone": First Edition of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring; Signed by Her
CARSON, Rachel.
Silent Spring.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962.
First edition of Carson’s landmark work. Octavo, original green cloth. Signed by Rachel Carson on the half-title page. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with some light rubbing to the extremities. Drawings by Lois and Louis Darling. \
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 83522
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“WICKEDLY CLEVER BRAIN-TICKLERS”: NEW YORK TRILOGY; SIGNED BY PAUL AUSTER IN ALL THREE VOLUMES
AUSTER, Paul.
The New York Trilogy: City of Glass. WITH: Ghosts. WITH: The Locked Room.
Los Angeles: Sun and Moon, 1985-86.
First editions of Paul Auster’s detective novels, each signed by him on the title page. Octavo, original cloth. City of Glass in first-state dust jacket, with no publisher’s device at spine foot. Each are signed by Paul Auster on the title page. Each are fine in a fine dust jackets. An exceptional set.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 93778
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"Charmer of serpents - why not try the birds?": First Edition of Roger Tory Peterson's First Book A Field Guide to the Birds; Warmly Inscribed by Him
PETERSON, Roger Tory.
Field Guide to the Birds: Giving Field Marks of All Species Found in Eastern North America.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934.
First edition, third state with the date on the copyright page of Peterson’s first book. Octavo, original green pebbled cloth, illustrated with 4 color plates with printed overlays, 32 monochrome plates. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Claire Kelly, charmer of serpents – why not try the birds? – Roger T. Peterson (Dictator) – C.M. Beal (Interpreter).” The recipient Claire Kelly, while a student at Cornell dated Peterson’s personal assistant C.M. Beal and at the time she was also working with snakes at the Museum of Natural History. In very good condition with some light dampstaining.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 102012
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"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything": Photograph of Mark Twain; Signed by Him
TWAIN, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens].
Mark Twain Signed Photograph.
1900.
Signed “Truly Yours Mark Twain” on an original postcard by J. Beagles & Co., from the early 1900s. In near fine condition.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 111644
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"The Truth Will Set You Free. But Not Until It Is Finished With You": First Edition Of The Author’s Magnum Opus; Inscribed By David Foster Wallace
WALLACE, David Foster.
Infinite Jest: A Novel.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996.
First edition of the author’s magnum opus. Thick octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Monika and Craig With All Best Wishes! David Foster Wallace.” The recipients were friends of the author as well as the director of the Rare Book Room at the Strand Bookstore. With publisher’s invitation to the New York publication party laid in. Fine in a fine first state dust jacket with Vollmann misspelled on the back panel. Jacket design by Steve Snider.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 117122
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"The strangest prose-poet Russia ever produced": First British Edition of Nabokov's Nikolai Gogol; Signed by Him
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Nikolai Gogol.
London: Editions Poetry London, 1947.
First British edition of Nabokov’s criticism of the work of Russian literary master Nikolai Gogol. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Vladmir Nabokov on the front free endpaper. From the library of Rona Kass, who was a student at Cornell University, where Nabokov taught in the 1950s. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Gogol. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 94568
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J.K. Rowling's first book Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone; Signed by her
ROWLING, J.K.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
London: Bloomsbury, 1998.
First adult paperback edition of the first book in the Harry Potter series. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by J.K. Rowling on the dedication page. In fine condition.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 99778
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First Edition of The Strategy of Conflict; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Thomas Schelling
SCHELLING, Thomas C.
The Strategy of Conflict.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1960.
First edition of this work that pioneered the study of bargaining and strategic behavior. Octavo, original yellow cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Roger Jan 75 Tom Schelling.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some wear and tear to the extremities.
Price: $3,400.00 Item Number: 89467
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“One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom": First Edition in English of Franz Kafka's The Castle; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
KAFKA, Franz.
The Castle.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930.
First edition in English of Kafka’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Translated by Edwin and Willa Muir. With an introduction by Edwin Muir. A superior example, scarce in this condition.
Price: $3,250.00 Item Number: 96542
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"The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with his desires": First Edition of Rem Koolhaas’ Delirious New York; Signed by Him
KOOLHAAS, Rem.
Delirious New York. A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan.
New York: Oxford University, 1978.
First edition of Rem Koolhaas’ masterpiece on the architectural design of one of the most celebrated cities in the world.. Folio, original cloth. Signed by Rem Koolhaas on the title page. Laid in is a lecture pamplet given by Koolhaas. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $3,250.00 Item Number: 745
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"The true natural rights of men, then, are equal justice, security of labor and property, the amenities of civilized institutions, and the benefits of orderly society": The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot; Inscribed by Russell Kirk
KIRK, Russell.
The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot.
London: Faber & Faber, 1954.
First British edition of one of the greatest contributions to twentieth-century American Conservatism. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Paul Gay Angel of the Hogback, Russell Kirk October 1, 1954.” In very good condition with light rubbing to the cloth and a small stain to the page edges. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed by Russell Kirk.
Price: $3,200.00 Item Number: 33065
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"But he’s a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid": First Edition of Arthur Miller's Pultizer Prize-Winning Classic The Death Of A Salesman; Signed by Him
MILLER, Arthur.
Death Of A Salesman.
New York: The Viking Press, 1949.
First edition of the first play to win all three major drama awards upon its opening in 1949: the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Tony Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original orange cloth, pictorial endpapers. Boldly signed by Arthur Miller in a contemporary hand on the second free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket. Jacket drawing by Joseph Hirsch.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 107533
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Long Walk to Freedom; Inscribed and Dated by Nelson Mandela To Ambassador Jean-Pierre Masset
MANDELA, Nelson.
Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela.
South Africa: MacDonald Purnell, 1994.
First South African edition, early printing of the autobiography of one of the greatest moral leaders of the twentieth century which has went on to sell over six million copies worldwide. Octavo, original black cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with photographs. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Ambassador Jean-Pierre Masset of France. Compliments & best wishes. NMandela 29.1.96.” The recipient, His Excellency Jean-Pierre Masset served as the French Ambassador to Pakistan from 1989 to 1993, a period of intense bilateral relations between France and Pakistan, marked by the state visit of President François Mitterrand, the first visit of a French President since the creation of Pakistan. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. An excellent association.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 89081
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First Edition of McCain's Promise; Signed by David Foster Wallace
FOSTER WALLACE, David .
McCain’s Promise: Aboard the Straight Talk Express with John McCain and a Whole Bunch of Actual Reporters, Thinking About Hope.
Boston: Back Bay Books, 2008.
First edition of this “bracingly insightful work” (New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by David Foster Wallace on the title page. In fine condition. Foreword by Jacob Weisberg. Rare signed as Foster Wallace passed away only three months after the publication of this volume.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 120984
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"Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget": First Edition In English Of Tolstoy’s Masterpiece Anna Karenina
TOLSTOY, Leo. (Count Lyof N Tolstoi). Translated by Nathan Haskell Dole.
Anna Karenina.
New York: Thomas J. Crowell & Co, 1886.
First edition in English of Tolstoy’s masterpiece. Octavo, original brown cloth, with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, patterned endpapers. Introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 110198
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Finely Bound Set of the Novels of Victor Hugo
HUGO, Victor.
The Novels of Victor Hugo.
Boston : Dana Estes, 1892.
The Illustrated Cabinet edition of the novels of Victor Hugo. Octavo, 12 volumes. Bound in three quarters navy blue morocco over blue cloth, elaborate gilt decorated spines with raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, with illustrated plates, frontispieces. In near fine condition. An exceptional set.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 105448